Official Statistics

Farmer Opinion Tracker for England: October 2022

Farmer opinion’s on Defra’s vision for farming, business planning, relationships with farming groups and Defra and the future of farming.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 9 February 2023
• Last updated: 5 February 2025
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  1. 5 February 2025

     This release is re-issued to include a correction to the table for the question ‘What changes do you think you will need to make?’ in the Farmer Opinion Tracker Timeseries for England and in the Farmer Opinion Tracker for England datasets from April 2023 to October 2022’. This data now includes responses for farmers who will need to make a change as well as those who are making changes.

  2. 10 February 2023

     Edited wording to accompany figure 4. This question includes responses from farmers 'who are making changes to businesses' as well as those who will be making changes to business.

  3. 9 February 2023

     First published.

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Farmer Opinion Tracker for England: October 2022

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Results of the October 2022 Farmer Opinion Tracker. This statistic notice provides a snapshot of views and opinions towards Defra’s vision for farming taken in October 2022. Farmers were asked a series of questions about Defra’s vision for farming, business planning, relationships with farming groups and Defra and the future of farming. All survey respondents also had the opportunity to provide additional comments.

Farmer Opinion Tracker datasets and time series containing data from September 2019.

Next update: see the statistics release calendar.

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• Social Research
  Future Farming Insights and Evaluation - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs farming.research@defra.gov.uk.
• Statistics
  Farming Statistics - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs farming-statistics@defra.gov.uk

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